15.2 Geographical Variety
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- Cockney
- David Crystal (2012)
- suggests that the nation's obsession with celebrity culture has been responsible for more additions
- Cockney slang was never widely known as it started as a secret way for people to talk to each other
- noticed there are still quite a lot of people out there inventing new rhyming slang e.g. 'Barack Obamas' for pyjamas
- while it might be true that cockney slang may be dying out it's worth pointing out that whatever started our impulse to rhyme words is still with us today.’
- as soon as the slang became known, Cockneys stopped using it
- suggests that the nation's obsession with celebrity culture has been responsible for more additions
- Museum of London survey
- studied 2000 adults, half from London
- almost 80% of Londoners do not understand phrases such as 'donkey's ears'
- studied 2000 adults, half from London
- David Crystal (2012)
- Multicultural London English (MLE)
- South London (MLE)
- the percentage of NNS from minority backgrounds is significantly above the national average, and are mostly of Afro-Caribbean descent
- some of the lexical choices made originate from other countries
- assume that the subjects who use these have a Jamaican or Afro-Caribbean background.
- language used is not about ethnicity; it's about where you live now
- several White-British teenagers used lexis from Jamaican or Afro-Caribbean origin
- language is synonymous with group identity, regardless of ethnicity or culture
- teenagers are attracted to or immersed in particular aspects of that culture
- a wide range of ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds
- Paul Kerswill
- people are faced with the issue of identity and are using language to create some form of social identity
- includes youth slang, which a lot of people use
- core users of MLE - to them it is a dialect and an accent
- a lot of the core speakers are in the East End of London; low opportunities; unable to make progress in life or are discriminated against
- so they speak differently, to use that as an exclusionary startegy
- Cockney will be 'gone in 30 years'
- 'Cockney in the East End is now transforming into MLE'
- It has been transplanted into surrounding counties such as Essex and Hertfordshire
- Cockney
- David Crystal (2012)
- suggests that the nation's obsession with celebrity culture has been responsible for more additions
- Cockney slang was never widely known as it started as a secret way for people to talk to each other
- noticed there are still quite a lot of people out there inventing new rhyming slang e.g. 'Barack Obamas' for pyjamas
- while it might be true that cockney slang may be dying out it's worth pointing out that whatever started our impulse to rhyme words is still with us today.’
- as soon as the slang became known, Cockneys stopped using it
- suggests that the nation's obsession with celebrity culture has been responsible for more additions
- Museum of London survey
- studied 2000 adults, half from London
- almost 80% of Londoners do not understand phrases such as 'donkey's ears'
- studied 2000 adults, half from London
- David Crystal (2012)
- Cockney
- It has been transplanted into surrounding counties such as Essex and Hertfordshire
- 'Cockney in the East End is now transforming into MLE'
- people are faced with the issue of identity and are using language to create some form of social identity
- South London (MLE)
- Gary Ives (2014)
- Sue Fox
- Cockney has undergone more rapid change than at any time in its long history
- research - since the 1950's, a vast number of white working-class Cockneys have moved to other parts of the country such as Essex - the once rural areas have been urbanised
- influence of Cockney is still exerted in these rural areas and traces of this dialect can still be heard
- Cockney is now associated with the white working-class in the South East of England rather than ethnic minorities born in the area
- Bangladeshi community now makes up over 1/3 of the East End and are labelled to speak MLE - they don't identify as Cockney
- Attitudes to MLE
- people are beginning to sound the same regardless of their colour or ethnic background
- young people growing up in London are exposed to a mixture of second-language English, international varieties of English and local London English
- spoke to groups of students from white Anglo-Saxon backgrounds, along with those of Arab, South American, Ghanian and Portugese descent and all spoke with the same dialect.
- young people growing up in London are exposed to a mixture of second-language English, international varieties of English and local London English
- people are beginning to sound the same regardless of their colour or ethnic background
- Cockney has undergone more rapid change than at any time in its long history
- Cockney
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